The US and international media have focused a great deal of coverage on Sri Lanka’s January 8 presidential election. Maithripala Sirisena, the newly-elected pro-US president, has been widely and falsely presented as a democrat. The real reason for this unusual amount of attention is not concern for democracy, but rather the strategic interests of US imperialism. An op-ed column entitled “Helping Sri Lanka’s New Democracy” in the New York Times on Monday went further, offering advice to the White House on how to entrench Sirisena and thereby protect American interests. It was written by Ryan Goodman, a law professor at New York University and adviser to the US State Department.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 07:00:01 +0000